Anna

It’s because people hate female characters that aren’t perfect and who are snarky, realistic, and sometimes make bad decisions but they would love them if they were a guy. Case and point? The people who love V.rian but despise Cass.

I think it’s mostly based in the fact that Varian was an unstable teenager who had just lost his father and everyone just saw him as a poor boy, who was just desperate.

On the other hand Cassandra is an adult and has always been portrayed as a strong person and a supportive friend. People don’t understand the pain she’s been in, because “oh well, Rapunzel was the one who was actually kidnapped”. People “despise” her, as you called it, because it is expected of so called *strong* people to act so and showing weakness, or loosing their composure, showing that they have these feelings and letting these emotions get to them is seen as a fault because “oh well but they’re so strong, they should have known better.

The other problem is that what happened to Varian *just* happened, on screen, while Cassandra’s pain was old, and her frustration with being overlooked was seen as minor and not that important, even though it was a constant state state she had lived in.

Last time this happened I was obsessed for three years and it never truly went away

I LOVE THE DRAGON PRINCE

People who have read the books: 

People who have read the books: 

I think think they wanted to make another Snape out of him when that was clearly not the point. I didn’t feel comfortable either haha. When reading the books I was relieved it was over, but here a small part of me sympathised with him?